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Edfloofcate (floofinition) – 1. The process of delivering knowledge, particularly about rules, to animals.
In use: “You’re a new cat, so let me edfloofcate you to the house rules,” he said. “Number one, it’s my house and my rules.”
2. The process of training humans to understand that animals make their own rules.
In use: “Sitting down, the cat regarded the man with bemused eyes. Time to edfloofcate him about the truth about his house and his rules.”
Unfloofditional (floofinition) – Not limited to a specific breed of animal or individual animal.
In use: “They called it a dog bed, but the goats sleeping on it demonstrated that it was an unfloofditional label.”
Floofware (floofinition) – Major items of equipment or components intended for use by animals.
In use: “Although laptops and keyboards are not floofware, many pets like to believe otherwise.”
Solfloof (floofinition) – Animal who enjoys sunshine.
In use: “Although the cats enjoyed prowling the night, during the day, they were genuine solfloofs, sleeping and preening in the sun, rulers of the night, replenishing their energy.”
Flooftization (floofinition) — 1. A movement to promote global acceptance that animals have equal rights to humans.
In use: “With flooftization, it’s promoted that rights are not anyone’s to issue, whether it’s a matter with gender, sexual orientation, race, etc., with humans, or animals’ rights to be free of abuse.”
2. Changes made to a localization to be more animal considerate.
In use: “As an example of flooftization, more countries are adopted flyovers that allow animals to safely cross high-speed highways without being killed or injured by motor vehicles.”
3. Alterations to a household to create a more animal-friendly domicile.
In use: “Cat trees and pet beds created safe spaces as part of the flooftization and fostering efforts.”
Coyfloof (floofinition) – 1. Animal that’s a hybrid of several species. The term is adapted from the expression, coywolf, the hybrid animal (part wolf, part coyote, part dog) that’s developed in the last decade in the United States.
In use: “An offspring of a male lion and a female tiger, a liger is a natural coyfloof that’s generally larger than either of its parents.”
2. A shy animal.
In use: “Even though she was large (for a housecat) at twenty-one pounds, she was a coyfloof, willing to be loving to her human, but shunning everyone else by hiding in a closet whenever someone came to the door.”
Bullfloof (floofinition) 1. A male herbivore who is accepted and kept as a pet.
In use: “Seymour was Marshall’s bullfloof, a rescue who would always be his buddy, and no amount of exasperation from his father about how wrong it was would ever change that.”
2. Nonsense or foolish talk about animals.
In use: “Many people still adhere to the bullfloof that animals are dump, incapable of empathy, and lack the feelings of a human.”
3. Animal nonsense that they expect people to take seriously.
In use: “The house was a wreck, and the cat and the dog, side-by-side on the sofa, tried to sell the bullfloof that they had no idea what’d happened by giving wide-eyed, innocent stares of the, “Who, me?” variety.”
Cyberfloof (floofinition) – Any activity involving a computer and an animal, especially housepets.
In use: “A cyberfloof isn’t a pet that’s using a computer to commit a crime (although many animals seen in pictures and videos on the net often steal our hearts).”
“Cats and dogs often turn themselves into cyberfloofs, sitting on keyboards, or blocking monitors, because they’ve noticed that this other creature is stealing their human’s attention.”
Floofiage (floofinition) – 1. A representation of animals for architectural ornamentation.
In use: “Intricately carved from a single fallen oak tree, a floofiage on her front door greeted visitors.”
2. A cluster or aggregate of animals and their fur.
In use: “Every morning when sunshine spilled into the living room, floofiage formed in the center and grew.”
Michael Seidel, writer 